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Are you familiar with the TV cooking show "The Pioneer Woman"? Ree Drummond's routine consists of cooking and serving up comfort food for her hardworking husband, four kids and friends. She manages to finesse easily a several course meal while sharing tales of daily life on their large cattle ranch in Oklahoma. She loves to cook a big cowboy meal and take it out to the group putting in a hard day's work. Imagine huge breakfast burritos filled with sausage, cheese, eggs, hash browns, topped with roasted tomatoes and jalapeno chilies, or mouthwatering fat bacon meatball sliders with barbecue sauce. She may make their favorite spicy ribs and beans dish, lemon blackberry bars, or cheese-chive muffins, even prepare watermelon granitas for refreshment. After preparing in her kitchen, she wraps the meals in foil and places food in convenient containers in a box. Along with the dog and food in the van, she drives out to the feed barn, a green pasture, or the large black, charred area of land burned the season before. It is her life's joy to plow her way through life in this manner. Her reward is not just the smiles, but often gorgeous sunsets on the way home, sometimes making her late to kids' activities.
Overflowing ponds,
abundant rains in the spring,
marinated blessings
I liked the phrase "plow her way through life". I think I've heard it before, but it strikes me as new. Those pancakes in the cast iron skillets look tasty. I've never seen The Pioneer Woman, but then I have rarely watched TV after I was about 14. Nice description of those cowboy meals.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful.Offers up a real sense of 'giving' and 'service' Those would be meals full of love.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful haiku! I like the touch of the sunset as a reward.
ReplyDeleteI am not familiar with the show but Ree sounds like a very inspirational woman and you have created a warm-hearted haibun to celebrate her. I especially love your 'marinated blessings' :o)
ReplyDeleteI have visited the Pioneer Woman site on occasion and enjoyed it. You've paid her a lovely tribute here. It reminded me of my childhood on the farm when I helped my mother prepare a mid-afternoon snack for the men working in the field ... usually sandwiches, huge quantities of iced tea, and home made cookies. We were a welcome site when we arrived with our trunk full of goodies!
ReplyDeleteShe is some woman cooking up delicious meals ~ The combination of marinated blessings and gorgeous sunsets is unbeatable. I love your story of Ree Kathy ~
ReplyDeleteOh I have not watched her cooking, but it sounds like the kind of food that you have to work hard to eat... :-) but it sounds like a small piece of paradise.
ReplyDeletemarinated blessings -- nice!
ReplyDeleteSWEET! Wonderful reading.
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